2014 Panini Prizm World Cup Soccer Cards

2014 is a busy year for soccer cards. 2014 Panini Prizm World Cup Soccer brings the card maker's signature chromium line to the biggest sport's tournament on the globe. Featuring a broad checklist of international stars, highlights include several Prizm parallels and an autograph lineup that has many of the game's greats.

The 2014 Panini Prizm World Cup Soccer base set has 200 cards. All 32 countries in the tournament are represented. Shiny Prizm parallels include Prizm, Blue (#/199 or less), Red (#/149 or less), Purple (#/99 or less), Green Crystal (#/25 or less), Gold (#/25 or less), Gold Power (#/5 or less) and Black (1/1). Multi-color Prisms can also be found for base cards and some inserts. Collectors can also find Red, White and Blue, Blue and Red, and Yellow and Red versions of select cards.

Autographs feature some of soccer's top names from day and the past. Pelé, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Clint Dempsey, Robin van Persie and Tim Howard are among those lending their signature to the product. Besides basic versions, autographs come with Prizm (#/25 or less) and Black Prizm (1/1) parallels. As the name suggests, Combo Signatures come with two autographs. These are extremely rare.

2014 Panini Prizm World Cup Soccer has a handful of basic inserts as well. World Cup Matchups have two star players who might cross paths in Brazil. World Cup Stars looks to previous tournaments for standouts. Both of these inserts have 11 Prizm parallels. Team Photo includes a group shot of all 32 teams participatig in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fuleco, the tournament's mascot, appears on a short print that lands about two per case.

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My LCS told me that autos will be 1 in 2 boxes, so if that is true, then they will sell at a premium and should mostly be big names. The parallels will also have to sell well in order for this product to be a huge success.

autos are more like 1 per 3 boxes and not 1 in 2… but many of the bigger names are SPs and common autos have larger amounts…
apparently this is Panini’s largest print run of the last few years… 200 card set PLUS all the subsets X all the prism parallels NNO over 1000 made and #d ~500 .. and you get 1 prism per box – do the math… wow

Not a soccer fanatic but follow it enough. Great product, although for the price (my hobby shop is selling boxes for $165!!), not enough autos. Also, to answer a comment from FR above regarding retail, yes Walmart is carrying retail boxes, at least by me in NY. They are $19.99 and include 4 packs. Not sure if the inserts are different in retail as in the other sports, but to be honest I have had better pulls from retail than hobby. Either way, great product!!!

Unbelievable collection of Autos & Parallels to be had. The 1 out of 2 box pull for an Auto is a bit of a stretch price wise for me but I will still snatch up as many boxes or cases as I can for as long as I can because this product will only increase in value due to the every four year thing I suppose… With that being said how can you resist the likes of pulling a Roberto “friggin” Baggio auto ? But what happened to guys like Zidane, Ronaldo, or even Ronaldhino……

I am a lifelong comic book geek who made the executive decision about a decade ago to drop card collecting. Just got too expensive to chase both. This Prizm World Cup set has single-handedly brought me back the joys of trading cards and the thrill of cracking open boxes. Awesome stuff! Bought 2 box and got an auto, a green, a gold power, and 4 purples combined. Since, I’ve already bought a couple of NFL boxes, and eyeing the coming NHL cards! Good to be back!

The best cards I’ve ever collected. I’m a huge soccer fanatic and buying these cards was a no brainer. I bought 4 hanger boxes 1 giant hobby box,even though not any of those had any autographed card in it I still loved those great looking cards.